Volcanic ash fuels anomalous plankton bloom in subarctic northeast Pacific

Details Volcanic ash fuels anomalous plankton bloom in subarctic northeast Pacific Volcanic ash fuels anomalous plankton bloom in subarctic northeast Pacific

Oct 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010georl..3719604h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 37, Issue 19, CiteID L19604

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Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Carbon Cycling (0428), Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Biogeochemical Cycles, Processes, And Modeling (0412, 0414, 0793, 1615, 4912), Volcanology: Volcano/Climate Interactions (1605, 3309), Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Trace Elements (0489), Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (1616, 1635, 3305, 3309, 4513)

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Using multiple lines of evidence, we demonstrate that volcanic ash deposition in August 2008 initiated one of the largest phytoplankton blooms observed in the subarctic North Pacific. Unusually widespread transport from a volcanic eruption in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska deposited ash over much of the subarctic NE Pacific, followed by large increases in satellite chlorophyll. Surface ocean pCO2, pH, and fluorescence reveal that the bloom started a few days after ashfall. Ship-based measurements showed increased dominance by diatoms. This evidence points toward fertilization of this normally iron-limited region by ash, a relatively new mechanism proposed for iron supply to the ocean. The observations do not support other possible mechanisms. Extrapolation of the pCO2 data to the area of the bloom suggests a modest ˜0.01 Pg carbon export from this event, implying that even large-scale iron fertilization at an optimum time of year is not very efficient at sequestering atmospheric CO2.

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